"Christian" overtakes "Protestant" label among younger Christians

[afleitch]

This is funny to me because many people here (west coast of Scotland) would be more likely to identify as Protestant than think of themselves as Presbyterian or even Christian, for obvious, uh, sectarian reasons.

The trend in the US must be very much because Catholicism became destigmatised in wider American society and as WASPs lost cultural hegemony.

In a similar vein many people will still call themselves Catholic despite not setting foot in a church for decades.

[afleitch]

https://mobile.twitter.com/ryanburge/status/1480564498587074561

Here's Catholics included.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ryanburge/status/1479859967695982592

And everyone else.

Really interesting how fast religious identification is unraveling with each new cohort. There's not a great deal of Gen Z data in other surveys (often lumped in with millennials) and here there is a very surprising shift amongst Gen Z in saying 'athiest/agnostic' rather than just 'None'.